Maggie Pearson has to turn the NHS, the third largest workforce in the world, into a learning organisation. She spoke to Claire Sanders Maggie Pearson's job is best seen as one long balancing act....
Mandy Garner meets an organiser of a literary festival with ambitious goals. Michael Schmidt is a bit of an internationalist. Born in Mexico, he has been running Carcanet press, the literary...
Football, foot-and-mouth and the Falklands - English-Argentine relations have been rife with conflict for 35 years. Klaus Dodds takes a look at foul play on and off the pitch. At 12.30pm today,...
Are adolescents really 'emotionally incontinent' or is the troubled teenager more a figment of the marketing manager's mind? Jerome Burne reports. It has always been a topic of much frustration to...
Poetry has fallen victim to a culture that dismisses anything 'difficult' as elitist. But students should delight in the difficult - it can be exciting, argues Ruth Padel. "We are not interested,"...
'Theory' is not an obvious candidate for theatrical treatment, but playwright Steve Waters argues that the philosophical musings of Bachelard and Barthes are the stuff of everyday life. Accounts of...
Perutz prizewinning essayist Collette Tourlamain introduces the fatal Pap. Meet Pap. He is a virus (human papillomavirus type 16 to give him his full name), a small circle of DNA with a protein coat...
Geoffrey Sampson's views are irresponsible and discredited and unworthy of the defence of academic freedom or free speech, says Ian McDonald One year ago, race riots swept across Northwest England....
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